quarantine

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  3/10/2021
  

  How Failed Quarantines Led to 20th-Century Measles Outbreaks

  Misperception of the severity of measles contributed to loosely enforced and poorly observed quarantining around periodic outbreaks of the disease. 

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  4/21/2020
  

  The Quiet Hand of Conservative Groups in the Anti-Lockdown Protests

  Groups in a loose coalition have tapped their networks to drive up turnout at recent rallies in state capitals and financed lawsuits, polling and research to combat the stay-at-home orders.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  4/20/2020
  

  We Need a New Social Contract for the Coronavirus

  Our collective behavior will be the primary determinant of whether we can keep this virus in check.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  4/6/2020
  

  What Moms Always Knew About Working From Home

  The obsession with office “face time” hurts women. When the coronavirus pandemic is behind us, let’s not return to it.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  3/30/2020
  

  The History of Loneliness

  by Jill Lepore

  Until a century or so ago, almost no one lived alone; now many endure shutdowns and lockdowns on their own. How did modern life get so lonely?

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/25/2020
  

  President Trump’s Desire to Reopen Businesses Quickly is Dangerous

  by Christopher McKnight Nichols

  History teaches us that prioritizing the economy could kill hundreds of thousands.

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• SOURCE: Daily Beast
  3/20/2020
  

  Will Americans Actually Comply With a Long-Term Lockdown?

  Historian Scott Knowles said the response in the U.S.—where both the president and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have advised the entire country against participating in large gatherings—is essentially unprecedented.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/22/2020
  

  The Virus Can Be Stopped, But Only with Harsh Steps, Experts Say

  In interviews with a dozen of the world’s leading experts on fighting epidemics, there was wide agreement on the steps that must be taken immediately.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  2/3/20
  

  Quarantines have tried to keep out disease for thousands of years

  by Leslie S. Leighton

  The recent global spread of a deadly coronavirus originating in Wuhan, China, has led world leaders to invoke an ancient tradition to control the spread of illness: quarantine.

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• 10-27-14
  

  Fear of illnesses from abroad is nothing new

  by HNN Staff

  The word quarantine -- French for forty days -- dates to the middle ages.

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• 11-4-13
  

  Peter C. Doherty: Pandemics Have Had "Enormous Influence" on History [INTERVIEW]

  by Robin Lindley

  The Nobel Prize-winning immunologist has just published "Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know."